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Definition of median in English:

median

adjective

1Denoting or relating to a value or quantity lying at the midpoint of a frequency distribution of observed values or quantities, such that there is an equal probability of falling above or below it.

‘the median duration of this treatment was four months’

‘If the median value was chosen, then the wavelengths were converted to a unit of energy.’

‘The median value of stock holdings among these families was $47,000 in 1998.’

‘The median values were compared by the rank sum test.’

‘At least 15 independent colonies were analyzed for each strain and the median values were used for the calculation.’

‘In all cases however, wetter/drier and warmer/cooler are relative to the median value at the location you're looking at.’

‘He says the poorest bankruptcy filers, people who fall below the median income in their state, can wipe out their debts the same way they did before.’

‘Arrows indicate the median value of divergence times of each distribution.’

‘Homes are considerably cheaper - the median value is about $25,000 - but they tend to be older.’

‘The median value assures good recognition for half of the frames.’

‘However, while a few genes do show rather high transition bias, most of the estimates cluster tightly around the median value.’

‘The first value corresponds to the most heterogeneous values observed in the literature and the second to a median value.’

‘As for Stephanie, she falls below her state's median income and could still file Chapter 7 but would have to fill out more paperwork to prove it.’

‘On the basis of the median values, it appears that researchers have used larger sample sizes in the last decade compared with in the earlier decades.’

‘When median values were examined, both sexes showed a preference for one partner and did not differ in the number of partners they preferred prior to settling down.’

‘There may be circumstances when it is important to be able to estimate the distribution function and the corresponding mean and median values parametrically.’

‘Frequencies of recombination correspond to the median value of two or three fluctuation tests, each one done with six independent colonies.’

‘We propose to calculate the median values at each iteration of the Gibbs sampler.’

‘The median values of comet length distribution (at least three independent experiments) were used in a one-way analysis of variance test.’

‘Use of the median value for an individual provides an analysis representing the central tendency for valuing the species.’

‘This information was then used to estimate the median values and the 95% confidence intervals.’

1.1Denoting the middle term of a series arranged in order of magnitude, or (if there is no middle term) the average of the middle two terms. For example, the median number of the series 55, 62, 76, 85, 93 is 76.

‘Further, the simple mean, median, and weighted average estimates for early, middle, and late estimates are quite close.’

‘Half of the species are located between 1.7 and 2.5, with the median value at 2.1.’

‘The median number of copies sold per week for the average book on the New York Times Best-selling list was 3,600.’

‘The median value for the size of the largest family per window was 2.0, whereas the mean was 2.34 with a standard error of 0.07.’

‘This produced an overall average of 13.7 and a median value of 13 paper-folding opportunities per textbook.’

‘Most families are middle-class; the median household income in 1989 was $38,586.’

2Anatomy technical Situated in the middle, especially of the body.

‘the median part of the sternum’

‘However, results may be limited, because the bladder neck and median prostate lobe cannot be treated.’

‘The contents of the tunnel include the median nerve and flexor tendons of the hand.’

‘The normally obliterated umbilical artery within the urachus forms the median umbilical ligament in the adult.’